From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9162BC4332D for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2021 01:44:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6734F64E90 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2021 01:44:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230517AbhCSBoM (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2021 21:44:12 -0400 Received: from kvm5.telegraphics.com.au ([98.124.60.144]:56596 "EHLO kvm5.telegraphics.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230056AbhCSBny (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2021 21:43:54 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by kvm5.telegraphics.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6CA429ECE; Thu, 18 Mar 2021 21:43:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:43:48 +1100 (AEDT) From: Finn Thain To: Christoph Hellwig cc: "David S. Miller" , Jens Axboe , Geert Uytterhoeven , Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Matt Turner , Russell King , Thomas Bogendoerfer , Michael Ellerman , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: Re: remove the legacy ide driver In-Reply-To: <20210318045706.200458-1-hch@lst.de> Message-ID: References: <20210318045706.200458-1-hch@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 18 Mar 2021, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > we've been trying to get rid of the legacy ide driver for a while now, > and finally scheduled a removal for 2021, which is three month old now. > > In general distros and most defconfigs have switched to libata long ago, > but there are a few exceptions. This series first switches over all > remaining defconfigs to use libata and then removes the legacy ide > driver. > > libata mostly covers all hardware supported by the legacy ide driver. > There are three mips drivers that are not supported, but the linux-mips > list could not identify any users of those. There also are two m68k > drivers that do not have libata equivalents, which might or might not > have users, so we'll need some input and possibly help from the m68k > community here. > A few months ago I wrote another patch to move some more platforms away from macide but it has not been tested yet. That is not to say you should wait. However, my patch does have some changes that are missing from your patch series, relating to ide platform devices in arch/m68k/mac/config.c. I hope to be able to test this patch before the 5.13 merge window closes.